EP 3836544 A2 20210616 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCTION OF ARTIFACTS AT DISCONTINUOUS BOUNDARIES IN CODED VIRTUAL-REALITY IMAGES
Title (en)
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCTION OF ARTIFACTS AT DISCONTINUOUS BOUNDARIES IN CODED VIRTUAL-REALITY IMAGES
Title (de)
VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR REDUZIERUNG VON ARTEFAKTEN AN DISKONTINUIERLICHEN GRENZEN IN CODIERTEN BILDERN DER VIRTUELLEN REALITÄT
Title (fr)
PROCÉDÉ ET APPAREIL DE RÉDUCTION D'ARTÉFACTS AU NIVEAU DE LIMITES DISCONTINUES DANS DES IMAGES DE RÉALITÉ VIRTUELLE CODÉES
Publication
Application
Priority
- US 201762534275 P 20170719
- US 201816034601 A 20180713
- EP 18836176 A 20180719
- CN 2018096217 W 20180719
Abstract (en)
Methods and apparatus of processing 360-degree virtual reality images are disclosed. According to one method, a 2D (two-dimensional) frame is divided into multiple blocks. The multiple blocks are encoded or decoded using quantization parameters by restricting a delta quantization parameter to be within a threshold for any two blocks corresponding to two neighboring blocks on a 3D sphere. According to another embodiment, one or more guard bands are added to one or more edges that are discontinuous in the 2D frame but continuous in the 3D sphere. Fade-out process is applied to said one or more guard bands to generate one or more faded guard bands. At the decoder side, the reconstructed 2D frame is generated from the decoded extended 2D frame by cropping said one or more decoded faded guard bands or by blending said one or more decoded faded guard bands and reconstructed duplicated areas.
IPC 8 full level
H04N 19/124 (2014.01); H04N 19/154 (2014.01); H04N 19/176 (2014.01); H04N 19/597 (2014.01); H04N 19/86 (2014.01)
CPC (source: CN EP US)
G06T 15/005 (2013.01 - CN US); G06T 19/003 (2013.01 - CN US); H04N 19/124 (2014.11 - CN US); H04N 19/154 (2014.11 - CN EP US); H04N 19/176 (2014.11 - CN EP US); H04N 19/597 (2014.11 - CN EP); H04N 19/86 (2014.11 - CN EP US); G06T 2200/04 (2013.01 - CN US); H04N 19/124 (2014.11 - EP); H04N 19/597 (2014.11 - US)
Citation (applicant)
ZHANG ET AL.: "AHG8: Segmented Sphere Projection for 360-degree video", JOINT VIDEO EXPLORATION TEAM (JVET) OF ITU-T SG 16 WP 3 AND ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11, 5TH MEETING: GENEVA, CH, 12 January 2017 (2017-01-12)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 2019015629 A1 20190124; CN 110024382 A 20190716; CN 110024382 B 20220412; CN 114584791 A 20220603; EP 3639515 A1 20200422; EP 3639515 A4 20210407; EP 3836544 A2 20210616; EP 3836544 A3 20210714; TW 201909644 A 20190301; TW I679883 B 20191211; US 10614609 B2 20200407; US 11049314 B2 20210629; US 2019026934 A1 20190124; US 2020193676 A1 20200618
DOCDB simple family (application)
CN 2018096217 W 20180719; CN 201880004491 A 20180719; CN 202210305184 A 20180719; EP 18836176 A 20180719; EP 20217884 A 20180719; TW 107124957 A 20180719; US 201816034601 A 20180713; US 202016802821 A 20200227